All Obiter articles – Page 85
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NewsRecord 12,000 lawyers ready to walk 10km for justice
London Legal Support Trust hopes to exceed last year's £740,000 fundraising total.
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NewsExotic flowers in the jury box
First women to sit on juries faced expected and unexpected challenges.
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NewsJackson fixed on knowledge - even over dinner
Lord Justice's enthusiasm for subject goes well beyond working hours.
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NewsThese lawyers were made for walking
Join the Gazette - and some legal luminaries - on next Monday’s double London legal walk.
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NewsPerils of purdah leave LSB tight-lipped
Our beloved super-regulator seems a little muddled about its constitutional status.
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NewsChilli con carnage for novice lawyer
Alison Fitch brings Obiter’s series on first days in the law up to 1988, when she started as an office junior. Her duties were, ahem, varied: ‘Everything was delivered by hand in those days so I’d walk miles, added to that picking Chelsea buns up for the office from the ...
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NewsWindies legend bowls 'em over
I can’t think in my pantheon of sporting lawyers how I came to omit the great West Indian cricketer Sir Learie Constantine. Mea culpa. He played for the Windies from 1923 until 1939, during which time he also played in Lancashire League cricket. Morton landscape Wisden described ...
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NewsDog's life for articled clerk
A bumper response this week for tales of first days in the law. His Honour Eric Stockdale contributes a story about the late Jim Seeman. ‘Jim was articled to a solicitor in Ruislip and usually spent the week there, returning to his home only at weekends. ‘Not long after he ...
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NewsEh? Permission to approach the bench...
On the subject of contempt of court, Obiterventures to correct Mrs Justice Lang DBE over a stinging put-down in a judgment pub-lished last week.
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NewsMemory lane
The Law Society Gazette, 6 May 1997: Lord Irvine of Lairg QC, mentor to the new prime minister Tony Blair, was last week confirmed as the new lord chancellor after a general election that produced 68 lawyer MPs.
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NewsMoni does justice to her marathon effort
‘Thank goodness for the Ministry of Justice!’ Not a phrase Obiter hears that often (or indeed at all) among lawyers.
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NewsJudicial diversity? Jury’s still out for LCJ
Criticising the slow progress made in broadening judicial diversity, human rights group Justice acknowledged that a number of the recommendations in its latest report will be unpopular with some.